Pankhurst Centre Archive
1979-2016
Archives
Total copies: 1
Collection of the Pankhurst Trust as relates to the Pankhurst Centre building 60-62 Nelson St including its restoration, and the Trust activities, governance, finances. Also includes photographs of the restoration and Trust activities.
Title:
Pankhurst Centre Archive
Date of work:
1979-2016
Search dates:
01 Jan 1979 - 31 Dec 2016
Reference number:
GB127.M875
Level of description:
Collection
Includes:
Custodial history:
The Pankhurst Trust (Incorporating Manchester Women's Aid) is based at 60-62 Nelson Street. No.62 was the home of Emmeline Pankhurst and played host to the first meeting of the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903. The building's historical significance lies in it being considered the birthplace of the suffragette movement in the UK. Despite being listed as Grade II* in 1974, a request to demolish the buildings was considered in 1978. To ensure its survival, activists squatted in the building until the application could be turned down, at which point a extensive programme of restoration was undertaken by The Pankhurst Trust (formed for this very purpose). The building opened in 1987 as a women's history and refuge centre. It has developed to incoprorate Manchester Women's Aid (2014) and housing Manchester Rape Crisis as tenants alongside managing a museum of the suffragette movement and subsequent women's activism.Records of the Pankhurst Trust were created and stored in the 60-62 building, primarily in its attic. In 2016 a survey of records was undertaken to discover what material was held and which of that should be kept. In 2019 a further project was initiated to formally catalogue and further appraise the collection to form the official archive. It was deposited in Manchester Archives+ repository in 2022.
Arrangement:
The collection has been separated into eleven series: governance of the Trust, Finance papers, Premises papers including the restoration, Fundraising including restoration campaigns, Friends of the Pankhurst Trust including newsletters, Marketing material of the Trust including those for exhibitions, activities etc., Projects/Activities undertaken within the Centre such as papers organising International Women's Day campaigns, WSPU Centenary planning and specific projects undertaken, Museum management papers including minutes of the Heritage/Archive group, Artefacts, Visitors books, Newspaper clippings. Photographs and Audio-Visual/Digital material have been given separate reference numbers within the catalogue as they are arranged primarily according to media and not content.
Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Record number:
15993380